All, I'm moving to a new thread since the discussion has moved away from just a sub profile for no-multilib.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:30:50AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Andreas K. Huettel > <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 25 Juni 2014, 15:11:40 schrieb Rich Freeman: > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> > Long story short, doing anything to Gentoo profiles is utter pain > >> > and comes with random breakage guarantee. Therefore, I'm asking -- nuke > >> > those damn profiles, and start over! The current situation is > >> > completely unmaintainable. > >> > >> ++ > >> > >> But, would it make sense to just go the Funtoo route with "mix-ins." > > ++ > > > > this is what we've been just discussing on the irc channel > > So, not wanting this to die on the vine. > > If we did the mix-in approach, would we just follow the example of Funtoo? > > They use an arch profile, a stability profile (~arch vs arch), a > "flavor" profile (core, minimal, desktop), and then users can layer as > much other stuff on top of that as they want (gnome, kde, multimedia, > etc). I think this could work for us as well, or something similar anyway. For those who are curious, I am including the link to the flavors and mix-ins descriptions from the funtoo site. [1] > > Do we want to do things the same way? > > Some things to think about include multilib (just another arch?), > systemd, and usr-merge. I'm not saying that we need to implement any > of that stuff completely - but when planning the profile layout we > should at least consider whether it will handle things like this in > the future. Should some types of profiles be only additive? Etc... I see systemd and multilib as mix-ins, like the ones you mentioned above. It is funny that you mention usr-merge. I don't want to get into a big debate on it on this thread, so for now I'll just say that I don't see that as affecting the profile structure at all. William [1] http://www.funtoo.org/Flavors_and_Mix-ins
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